Nothing really highlights the decay of U.S. society like the failure of the F-35 program. This fucking thing is STILL not combat ready. This program was promised to save costs, and streamline everything. Instead, the program will cost over 2 TRILLION fucking dollars. F-35s were supposed to be 35 million a piece and have cheap flight time. They are 90 million have cost twice as much to fly vs the f-15/f-18. - And the thing is a fucking piece of shit.

The U.S. scrapped the f-22 because it was too expensive. only built 187 vs. the intended 750 planned. Only to light money on fire with this hunk of shit f-35. The f-35 doesn't even have that great of stats. Its fucking slow, performance numbers are below f-15/f-18, it only has stealth, with a shitty coating that breaks all the time. All it's sensor tech could have been put in existing planes or drones.

The U.S. could have literally saved a trillion dollars by continuing the f-22 program, and updating existing planes. -which, they had to upgrade anyway because the f-35 is so behind. That's why the f-15ex exists. Literally, every 2024 delivery was fucking late. The truly sad part is, having all those f-22s and upgraded 4th gens would have been a superior fighting force.

What a symbol for U.S. incompetence and waste.